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THE GHOST NOTEBOOKS

Ben Dolnick

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become caretakers of a historic museum.

When Nick Beron and Hannah Rampe decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they aren't exactly running away, but they need a change. Their careers have flatlined, the city is exhausting, and they've reached a relationship stalemate. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House, a museum dedicated to an obscure nineteenth-century philosopher, and she and Nick swiftly move into their new home. The town's remoteness, the speed with which Hannah is offered the job, and the lack of museum visitors barely a blip in their consideration.

At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozythey speak in Masterpiece Theater accents and take bottles of wine to the swimming hole. But as summer turns to fall, Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. One morning, Nick wakes up to find Hannah gone. In his frantic search for her, Nick will discover the hidden legacy of Wright House: a man driven wild with grief, and a spirit aching for home.

Ben Dolnick is the author of the novels At the Bottom of Everything, You Know Who You Are, and Zoology. His work has appeared in GQ and The New York Times, and on NPR.

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Book Published 2018-02-01 by Pantheon

Comments

Dolnick excels at creating a subtle, growing sense of unease. His narrative shuttles skillfully between Nick's point of view, pages from Wright's work, Hannah's curatorial observations, the case notes of the psychiatrist who treated Hannah's depression and a series of fragmentary visions of everyday life, disturbing in their very mundanity.

For all its curiosity about things that go bump in the night, the most notable features in The Ghost Notebooks are its qualities of light. Ben Dolnick's charm, lucidity, and insight will come as no surprise to his growing band of fans. Count me one of them." Garth Risk Hallberg, author of City on Fire

*AM New York, A Must-Read Book of 2018 *Vogue, February's Best Books *New York Magazine, Approval Matrix *New York Post, "This week's must-read books"

Dolnick's immersive novel, about how little people know about their loved ones, adds a supernatural element to that topic . . . Nick's convincing narration, a chronicle of blind spots and good intentions, is chief among the devices Dolnick deploys to give familiar motifs a contemporary sensibility in this ghost tale, love story, mystery, and bildungsroman.

In this compelling mix of love story, detective story, and ghost story, [Dolnick] takes a haunting look at what might follow life.